AF662 on 01 Oct :makes the news in France today
Flight AF662, from Paris-Charles de Gaulle to Dubai, was flying over Iraq at the time of the attack. The pilots ‘saw the missiles from the cockpit’, according to LCI. As far as we are concerned, the company's security department is entirely responsible. They asked some aircraft to turn back, but not this one’, said Laurent Veque, a board member of the Syndicat national des pilotes de ligne, section Air France. ‘As the risk is known, it is impossible to take it’, he lamented on LCI on Wednesday 9 October. ‘Light must be shed (...) The health, safety and working conditions committee (CSSCT) will certainly be called in today, we want to know what happened’, he added.
Ballistic missiles travel at a higher altitude than airliners. But according to LCI, the pilots of flight AF662 ‘saw the missiles from the cockpit’, information that Air France did not wish to comment on. According to the news channel, Iraqi air traffic control even wished the plane's crew ‘good luck’ as they began their flight over the country.
Translated , source AFP/LCI website
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